Coin-actuated vending-machine



(No Model.) W. S. BURNETT.

COIN ACTUATED VENDING MACHINE.

' Patented Mar. 12, 1895.

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IJNiT D STATES WILLIAMS. BURNETT, OF MILVAUKEE, \VISCONSIN. I

COlN -ACTUATED VENDING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 535,787, dated March 12, 1895.

Application filed October 17, 1894. Serial No. 26, No model $0 aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM S. BURNETT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Coin-Actuated Vend ing-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in the coin actuated news-paper vending machine described and shown in my application, Serial No. 517,214, filed in the United States Patent Office July 11, 1894:; and its objects are, first, to avert the danger of the use of iron disks for operatingthe actuating levers; second, to avert the danger of more than one paper being taken from the machine at a time, and, third, to dispense with the use of springs to actuate the books that convey the papers out of the machine. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1, is a vertical section of the case showing the position of the coin chute, the actuating levers and the roller shaft. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same with parts cut away to show the position of the feed roller, the transfer hooks and the actuating mechanism. Fig. 3, is a vertical section of the machine showing the paper gage. Fig. 4, is a cross section showing the position of the paper in the storage chamber. Fig. 5, is a back perspective of the dummy trap and an edge view of the magnet that stops and removes iron disks from the machine. Fig. 6, is a vertical cross section of the chute. Fig. 7, is an end view of the roller showing the arrangement of the shafts and cranks that actuate the transfer points; an end view of the eccentric that actuates the same, and a longitudinal view of the shaft; and Fig. 8, is

'an end view of the ratchet and pawl that holds the roller to position, and from turning backward.

Similar letters refer to similar parts th roughout the several views.

A, is the inclosing frame.

B, is the coin chute.

C, is the dummy trap.

E is a lever for freeing the coin from the storage chamber 12' in the chute.

F, is the main actuating lever.

G is the eccentric and catch that operates the levers by the use of the crank J on the roller shaft J after the lever F has been thrown from contact with the catch g, and G is the spring that holds the roller to position, and is secured into, and operated by the pivoted support G".

All of. the parts herein described are situated and operated exactly similar to the corresponding parts in my machine hereinbe fore referred to.

. I find that the hole through iron Washers is often filled with lead or a thin piece of wood and thus the washer trap shown in my former application is rendered useless to stop them before they reach the actuating slide, and to overcome this difficulty I place a small magnet D, back of the swinging portion C, of the chute in position so that the coin will pass directly by the poles thereof, and any iron disk or dummy that may be passed into the chute will be attractedand held by it.

When an iron dummy has been arrested by the magnet it is necessary to remove it before a coin can be passed through the chute, and for this purpose I attach one or more wires 0 to arms on the back surface of the trap O in position to lie in the notches d in the magnet, in position so that the dummy will pass between them and the body of the trap. At the outer upper end of the trap (J I form an incline c in position so that when a coin is passed through the slot into the chute, as at M in Fig. 1, it will crowd the trap out, as indicated by the dotted lines in Figs. 2 and 6, and the dummy will be drawn away from the magnet and will drop directly down from the trap into the open case, as indicated by the arrow mtin Fig. l, and by the time the coin, following the course of the arrow 1%, reaches the magnet the trap will have resumed its normal position in the chute. The coin, in passing through the chute, takes the course indicated by the two arrows m m and engages the actuating lever at M at the bottom of the wing 12 of the chute, as in my former machine, except that in this machine I pivot a gate F in position so that throwing itin one direction will lessen, and throwing it in the other will increase the width of the lower end of the wing 11 of the chute to adjust it to the exact width of the coin to be used. This device serves as a fur ther guard against the use of dummies, as it prevents an article that is larger, diametrically, than the coin to be used from passing through.

The pocket 11" is identical with the corresponding pocket shown in my former application; being designed for the use of two or more coins to operate the lever. Thus, as here shown, two coins stop in the pocket and the third passes over into the pocket I) and opcrates the lever to disengage it from the catch 9 on the eccentric G when the eccentric is turned around with the roller and carries the lever up, as indicated by the dotted lines, and, raising the lever E throws the arm e from under one of the coins and allows both to drop out as indicated by the arrow m.

My feed roller H is exactly similar to the one used in my former machine and is provided with similar shafts 11 having points it to convey the papers out of the machine. The points may be secured into these shafts by passing through them and held to place with set screws, as in Fig. 7, and, in lieu of the springs used in my former machine for actuating the shaft to throw the points back out of the papers, I place a cam in the support IIas shown in Fig. 7, at I,-and form an arm and antifriction roller h to work in it so that the points are thrown in and out with each revolution of the roller, and with a positive action. At the opposite end of the roller I place a pawl h' and a ratchet H" to prevent the roller from being turned backward.

My appliance for gaging the opening a to the thickness of the paper consists of a slide L actuated by a lever L and held to position by the rivets or guides Z that are arranged to work over the slots Z in the slide; and the lever held to position by the pin 1 in the holes Z.

The papers K are supported on the table K and held to place by a weight B so that the turning of the roller will draw them forward and force them out of the opening a in the case within reach of the operator.

A is a case, having a glass front, where a placard may be inserted, on which is printed the name and date of the papers in the machine, and A" is a small window through which the operator may look to ascertain whether or not there are papers inside.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is"

1. In a coin actuated machine, a storage compartment, a roller in said compartment, shafts supported in said roller and provided with points that project through and engage the papers to convey them out of the machine, cranks on said shafts to engage with a cam to actuate the points to throw them out and in, a crank, an eccentric, levers and a chute for operating said roller, and a gage consisting of a slide operated by a lever to regulate the opening for the egress of papers, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a coin actuated vending machine, a roller, points supported upon rods in said roller for delivering the vended articles, a crank, alever, a spring and a catch for operating the same, and a coin chute, said coin chute having a divided wall pivoted to swing open and shut, a magnet back of said swinging portion, and wires on said swinging portion in position to rest between the magnet and the coin when the coin is passing through the chute, and an incline on the inner surface of the swinging portion at the end where the coin enters the chute, substantially as, and for the purpose set forth.

3. In a coin actuated machine, a storage compartment, and levers eccentric and spring for delivering the vended article; in combination with a coin chute having the wall near the end where the coin is inserted divided and pivoted to swing out and in, wires supported on arms upon said swinging portion in position to allow the coin to pass between them and the outer wall, a magnet back of said wires, and an incline on the inner surface of the swinging plate in position so that the entrance of the coin will swing this portion out to draw anything that may be held in the chute by the magnet, away and drop it out of the chute, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

4. In a coin actuated vending machine, a storage chamber, a roller for delivering the vended article from said chamber, levers, springs, and cams for operating said roller, and a coin chute having a gage pivoted in position to increase or diminish the width of the end of said chute next to the actuating lever, substantially as,'and for the purpose set forth.

Signed at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, this 10th day of October, 1894.

WILLIAM S. BURNETT.

In presence of-- F. W. CoTsHAUsEN, EMMA A. SIMON. 

